Speaking in unusual detail, (Transportation Security Administration chief ) Pistole offered specifics about an underwear bomb devised by a master al Qaeda bomb-maker in Yemen meant to be exploded in an airliner over the United States last year. The plot was foiled thanks to a double-agent inside al Qaeda's Yemen branch.

Pistole described the May 2012 bomb as "a next generation device" that was "new and improved in many respects" from the Christmas 2009 bomb. Designed by one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, Ibrahim al-Asiri, the device featured "a new type of explosive that we had never seen," Pistole said. "All of our explosive detection equipment... wasn't calibrated to detect that. And all of our 800 bomb-sniffing dogs had not been trained for that specific type."

Human intelligence is what has nabbed many of the suspected terrorists or enabled us to target them. The NSA surveillance on American citizens isn’t an active part in these types of situations as far as I can tell,,yet,,this communist administration continues to use that line to justify the existence of their intrusive database building.

“4. Why is the TSA chief confirming all this in a news conference letting everyone, including Al Qaeda know this????!!!”

They depend upon a state of constant fear in the weaker minded to ensure their pay, pensions and power. Of course part of their constituency consists of those who just can’t get enough security theater. You know, the “loose lips sink ships” crowd.

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posted on 07/21/2013 7:27:03 AM PDT
by dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")

All these “we could have stopped this if we had this,” “we stopped some unidentified something in some something country that would have been real bad,” et cetera are just a bunch of lying bullshit.

TSA, DHS et al can’t find their butts with both hands and a flashlight. Anything they’ve stopped where it’s been show that it was an actual threat was as a result of them MISSING it and the perpetrators failing.

Yes, exactly. And now, after over a decade of brainwashing about TSA, they can do whatever they want (stop people in malls, search valet-parked cars, interrogate at bus stations, paw through people’s things anywhere they feel like it, stealing what they want — just like in Soviet Russia).

Just trying to wear us down, as it were. So we no longer question the unlawful actions of the Police state.

Indeed. Who is like unto Fedzilla? Who can make war with it? Especially now with its blasphemous Obamahead and his many like-minded hydraheads.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Rev 13

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

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posted on 07/21/2013 7:33:34 AM PDT
by Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)

Too busy thinking about where to golf next. Too busy thinking about where to vacation next. Too busy to think about anything but promoting an abortion of a healthcare bill, lying and sic’ing the IRS on all his white enemies.

Why blow up a plane in person using underwear or anything else when they have already smuggled more than enough MANPADS in to the US via the open southern border to take down hundreds of commercial airliners whenever they want to?

Well, yeah, why would we believe Pistole anymore than we’d believe Obamuzzie, Hildebeast, Napolitano, the IRS,take your pick? So the Rab’s are chemistry geniuses? I’m guessing the secret is made from something they scraped out of their underwear.

Inside man at the skunk works??? Suuuurrrree. The only way this makes the tiniest bit of sense is if we don’t have any actual inside guys but we hope this starts a purge of whoever is left. Getting the Yemenis to kill each otheris productive.

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